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>Far from being an innocuous domestic animal, a goldfish freed in fresh water is an invasive species, an organism that is introduced to an environment, can quickly reproduce, outco…

As much as I'd prefer to be a baker or tradesman, I know you're not going to pay me anything near what you get for coding. Gonna fake it until I make it, maybe even be a very medio…

Fair enough

It's good you wrote this up to bring attention to this, but did you really have to torment the CSR by saying you'd go to social media about it as some kind of bargaining chip? You'…

But Asians are being systemically held down by affirmative action and racial quotas. Proof that the power of systemic racism is very real no matter your income or class, or no matt…

An expense for businesses and households that can afford it (and they'll surely write it off their taxes), is not equivalent to the impact on poor people who will be put on the str…

The young and poor can't afford to increase their cost of living even further. We're already burdened with debt, a shitty job market, unable to afford housing, and are having troub…

I really don't believe that is the best alternative. If $1000 is really enough to get enough laptops for whatever number of participants there, then you're better off using half or…

I have to deal with this problem living in a room with no AC/central air and I have some tips that may be useful for others in the same situation. 1. Put a frozen water bottle unde…

I am kind of fascinated how people without computers end up at a coding school. Are they paying to attend? That said, I have an elitebook 8470p and assuming they have ssds and enou…

>I also don't understand the article's interest in decoupling programming from math It's an unfortunate side effect of America's long acceptance of anti-intellectualism. And people…

It offers a Pepsi instead.

Lots of great advice in this thread. I hope you don't get overwhelmed thinking about what and how to apply them to your own life. Just remember that it's better to do something tha…

You just need to buy a coffee sack or something similar to it and a big pitcher. 1 cup of ground coffee (coarse ground preferred but regular ground coffee works too) to 4 cups of w…

If you go for a thinkpad, I advise going for a model that still uses the dual battery system. Some models I can think of: t480, x270, p51s, p52s. Since you'll be running Linux, you…

You could try giving them money. I'm poor and after the reality of covid hit and I was out of a job, I confided in my best friend to give me a loan of $5000 in order to give me som…